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Automakers will distribute booklet to promote use of ethanol

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Sao Paulo- The Union of Industry Cana-de-Açúcar (Unica) signed today (15) an agreement with the four largest automakers in the country - Fiat, Ford, General Motors (GM) and Volkswagen - the distribution of a booklet promoting the use of ethanol as fuel. During the year, the Primer of ethanol will be delivered with dual manual cars, so-called flex.

The agreement between the organization that represents more than a quarter of the plants of sugar cane country and the companies responsible for 80% of the production of cars was made at the headquarters of Unica, in São Paulo. The idea is that two million books are distributed in 2009.

A Primer of ethanol is an educational publication produced by Unica brings data from the Brazilian sugar cane industry, information on the economy that the use of ethanol as fuel and environmental benefits of ethanol.

The book already had been distributed since last year. However, the second president of Unica, Marcos Jank, the agreement with the automakers will further disseminate information on alcohol fuel.

"This is a historic moment for us [the only]," Jank said during the meeting that formalized the agreement. "Consumers are opting for alcohol because it is cheaper, but we want to show everything that is behind it: a national industry, which employs 850 thousand people and generates many environmental benefits."

Jaime Ardila, president of GM Brazil and Mercosur, ratified the commitment of your company to spread the use of ethanol in Brazil and worldwide. He said the cars produced by GM Brazil are flex. In the United States by 2012, 60% of cars produced by assemblers also use ethanol.

Marcus Vinicius Aguiar, manager of institutional relations of Fiat, also emphasized the importance of ethanol in the current scenario of climate change. "We have research on electric cars and moved to other fuels, but today, the reality is ethanol."

Unica's data show that more than half the fuel consumed in Brazil is ethanol. Today, about 90% of new cars and light sold in the country are flex and thus can use the fuel


Source: Agência Brasil

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